Today either all nodes in the cluster connect to remote clusters of only nodes
that have remote clusters configured in their node config. To allow global remote
cluster configuration but restrict connections to a set of nodes in the cluster
this change adds a new setting `search.remote.connect` (defaults to `true`) to allow
to disable remote cluster connections on a per node basis.
Instead of `search.remote.seeds.${clustername}` we now specify the seeds as:
`search.remote.${clustername}.seeds` which is a real list setting compared to an unvalidated
group setting before.
this commit adds full support for proxy nodes on the search layer.
This allows to connection only to a small set of nodes on a remote cluster
to exectue the search. The nodes will proxy the request to the correct node in the
cluster while the coordinting node doesn't need to be connected to the target node.
This commit adds `qa/multi-cluster-search` which currently does a
simple search across 2 clusters. This commit also adds support for IPv6
addresses and fixes an issue where all shards of the local cluster are searched
when only a remote index was given.
Simon Willnauer
javanna